Tag Archives: stephen king

topiary as lovecraft story

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: it’s time to talk about topiary. i grew up HATING topiary. it was stupid and silly and vaguley seemed like vegetable cruelty. i always associated it with the epitome of snobbish wasteful extravagance – “if you got … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged A.O Scott, art chantry, errol morris, Fast Cheap and Out of Control film, h.p. lovecraft, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, stephen king, Stephen King The Shining, Topiary Art | Leave a comment

alien seeding

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: my old friend, wilum pugmire, has recently emerged on facebook as an interesting presence. long an h.p. lovecraft admirer and weird fiction writer in the lovecraft tradition, he has begun a great deal of readings online and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend | Tagged art chantry, Edgar Allen Poe, h.p. lovecraft, Howard Menger, Howard Phillips Lovecraft, Joe Borers sculpture, Johnny Depp, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, stephen king, wilum pugmire | Leave a comment

where there’s a wilum there’s a way

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a photo taken at a halloween haunted house back in 1994. that’s me (with the meat cleaver at my throat) along with mr. & mrs. frank n. stein (and the brilliant artist ashleigh talbot in … Continue reading →

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an illustrated poe: distraught and distrubing

Posted on February 18, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry lit snobs abhor genre fiction. that’s why we all sniff at successful writers like stephen king and and john grisham and say things like, “yes, he’s good, but he’s “popular” ya know?” as if the idea that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged american industrial merchant culture, art chantry, Arthur Rackham, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, john grisham, rackham poe illustrations, stephen king, The Beatles, the beatles records, The Monkees | Leave a comment

crappy gorey

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) EDWARD gorey is so famous at this point, that i hardly need to even mention him here. everybody already knows his work so well. he’s as universally admired as charles addams for his peculiar and … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged antonio frasconi, art chantry, charles addams, David Bowie, edward gorey, jesse marinoff reyes, Leonard Baskin, Norman Rockwell, stephen king, the mist movie | Leave a comment

writing for love or money? or rank?

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Dave

Writing for love or money. Obviously, not everyone is Franz Kafka who leaves instructions to have their manuscripts torched after their demise. Given the current legal wrangling over the cache of Kafka papers, maybe Max Brod should have been a … Continue reading →

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skulling with the morbid angel

Posted on May 9, 2011 by Art

“secretly important men”; a severe intensity that dissolved into a vanishing… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This strange little comic is a sort of trifecta of mad genius. Drawn by the inimitable Blair Wilson and written by the exquisitely peculiar Wilum Pugmire … Continue reading →